Tamilnadu Board Class 9 English Solutions Prose Chapter 2 I Cant Climb Trees Anymore

Tamilnadu State Board Class 9 English Solutions Prose Chapter 2 I Cant Climb Trees Anymore

Chapter 2 I Cant Climb Trees Anymore In – Text Questions

Question 1.
What was the old house built with?
Answer:
The old house was built with solid blocks of granite, which wasn’t altered at all.

I Cant Climb Trees Anymore

Question 2.
Does the visitor still live in the house?
Answer:
No, the visitor had sold his house, after his grandmother’s death and went away.

I Cant Climb Trees Anymore Solutions

Question 1.
What did the visitor hide in the jackfruit tree?
Answer:
The visitor hid his grandfather’s Iron Cross in the jackfruit tree.

Question 2.
When did the visitor actually hide the iron cross?
Answer:
The visitor actually hid the Iron Cross twenty-five years ago.

A. Based on your understanding of the story, indicate either T (True) or ‘F’( False) against the columns.
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B. Based on your understanding of the story, answer the following questions by choosing the correct answer.

Question 1.
The story I Can’t Climb Trees Anymore highlights the importance of __________________.
(a) old age
(b) youth
(c) adulthood
(d) middle age
Answer:
(b) youlh

Question 2.
The house which was visited by the man __________________.
(a) remained unchanged
(b) was totally changed
(c) was slightly repaired
(d) was given a facelift
Answer:
(c) was slightly repaired

Question 3.
Who said, “A blessing rests on the house where the shadow of a tree falls”?
(a) Grand mother
(b) Uncle
(c) Grand father
(d) The visitor
Answer:
(a) Grand mother

Question 4.
The visitor came back to the house because he __________________.
(a) wanted to see the jackfruit tree
(b) was looking for his lost youth
(c) wanted to look again at his old house
(d) wanted to buy the house.
Answer:
(b) was looking for his lost youth

Question 5.
The visitor gifted the __________________ to the little girl.
(a) iron cross
(b) marbles
(c) bronze medal
(d) old coins
Answer:
(a) iron cross

MCQs – Additional

Question 1.
The flying trapeze is a __________________ in which people swing from and end to another end.
(a) circus act
(b) circus ring
(c) circus show
Answer:
(a) circus act

Question 2.
Who said, “I can’t climb trees anymore,”
(a) Narrator
(b) Little girl
(c) Grand father
Answer:
(a) Narrator

C. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two.

Question 1.
Explain : “Blessings rest on the house where the shadow of a tree falls”.
Answer:
It shows the importance of trees to a house. The tree keeps on yielding fruits and gives shade.

Question 2.
What did the writer observe about the house?
Answer:
The house was not altered but there was a new outhouse and fewer trees. The turnstile was gone and the opening walled up.

Question 3.
What was the local superstition about trees?
Answer:
If the shadow of a tree falls on the house, then the house will be a blessed one.

Question 4.
What did the visitor do with the turnstile when he was a boy?
Answer:
As a boy, the visitor would swing on it, going round and round until he was quite dizzy.

Question 5.
Who is the owner of the house now?
Answer:
A colonel, the father of the little girl, is the owner of the house.

Question 6.
Why did the visitor return to his old house?
Answer:
The visitor returned to his old house just to relive his childhood memories.

Question 7.
How did he get back the Iron Cross?
Answer:
The little girl climbed up the tree and brought him his Iron Cross.

Question 8.
How did the grandfather get the iron cross? (^)
Answer:
Grandfather got the Iron Cross from a German soldier. It was awarded for bravery during the first World War.

Question 9.
What did he do with the old Iron Cross?
Answer:
The visitor left it in the hollow of the jackfruit tree and forgot all about it, while vacating the house.

Question 10.
Where had he left his childhood treasures?
Answer:
He had left his childhood treasures in a small hollow of the jackfruit tree.

Short Questions and Answers; Additional

Question 1.
What was the visitor looking at?
Answer:
The visitor stood on the grass verge by the side of the road and looked over the garden wall at the old house.

Question 2.
What were the slight changes observed by the visitor?
Answer:
There was a new outhouse, and there were fewer trees. At the spot where he stood there had once been a turnstile, now the turnstile was gone, the opening walled up.

Question 3.
Name the two things about the house that had not changed.
Answer:
The old house built with solid blocks of granite wasn’t altered at all. The Jackfruit tree still stood at the side of the building casting its shade on the wall.

Question 4.
Describe the little girl.
Answer:
The little girl was only twelve or thirteen with lively eyes and long black hair.

Question 5.
When had the visitor lived in the house? Why had he left the house? .
Answer:
The visitor had lived in the house twenty-five years ago, as a boy and as a young man.
His grandmother died, and his house had been sold. He then went away.

Question 6.
What according to the girl, made the visitor come back?
Answer:
She thought the visitor had come back to buy the house, but he did not have enough money to do so.

Question 7.
What liberty had the girl’s parents granted her?
Answer:
She was allowed to bring her friends home. Her parents would not mind if she did so.

Question 8.
How did the visitor prove his youthful energy?
Answer:
The visitor decided to climb over the wall instead of going round to the gate. In the process of climbing up, he rested on the wall, breathing heavily.

Question 9.
What was the significant of the stone bench?
Answer:
The stone bench under the mango tree was the one on which his grandmother used to rest, when she was tired of pruning rose bushes and bougainvillaea.

Question 10.
What memories flooded into the visitor’s mind in the garden? „
Answer:
The visitor closed his eyes and remembered other times – the music of a piano, the chiming of a grandfather clock, the constant twitter of budgerigars on the veranda, his grandfather cranking up the old car.

Question 11.
Mention the treasures the visitor had kept in the hollow of the tree.
Answer:
Marbles he had won, a book he was not supposed to read, a few old coins he had collected and his grandfather’s iron cross were kept in the hollow of the tree.

Question 12.
Why wasn’t the Iron Cross actually his grandfather’s?
Answer:
The Iron Cross was a German decoration awarded for bravery during the First World. War, when his grandfather fought in France. It was not given to him because he was a British soldier. He got it from a German soldier.

Question 13.
Why had the visitor left the Iron Cross in the tree?
Answer:
The visitor was so excited at the time of leaving, packing and saying goodbye to people and thinking about the ship he was going to sail on that he had simply forgotten all about the iron cross.

Question 14.
What was the purpose of the narrator’s visit?
Answer:
He had not come to get the iron cross. He had come there to relive his youth.

Question 15.
What might have been the reason for the visitor’s sprightliness?
Answer:
The visitor recalled his childhood days, spent at the house and enjoyed every moment of it. He felt he had regained his youth, though he was not able to climb trees any longer as he had surpassed youthful days of courage and strength.

Paragraph Questions and Answers : Additional

Question 1.
What were the visitor’s reminiscences of his youthful days at the old house?
Answer:
As a boy, the visitor would swing on the turnstile, going round and round until he was quite dizzy. The visitor, as a boy, would sit on a stone bench under a mango tree, where his grandmother rested after pruning rose bushes and bougainvillea. He would listen to the music of a piano, the chiming of a grandfather clock, the constant twitter of birds on the veranda and his grandfather cranking up his old car.

Question 2.
Trace the purpose of the narrator’s visit to the house and the treasure he retrieved in the end.
Answer:
The visitor had come to the house, thinking of old times. He would hide his treasures like marbles, a book and a few old coins in the hollow of the jackfruit tree. He had hidden his grandfather’s Iron Cross, while vacating the house. The girl urged him to keep it, but he gave it back to her. After having spent some time with the innocent girl, sharing his childhood memories, he felt he had got back his youth. His heart was filled with joy and he left the place happily.

Question 3.
Describe the bond of friendship that spruced up between the visitor and tha little girl.
Answer:
The visitor did not come to frighten the girl or take away her belongings. The girl was carried away to know why the visitor had paid her a visit. She learnt of the joyful days of the visitor’s childhood. She even got the medal – Iron Cross that belonged to his grandfather and had been left in a small hollow in the branch of the jackfruit tree for twenty five years. The visitor, as a token of love, had given it to her. Thus both the visitor and the girl became thick friends, in their short span of their brief acquaintance.

D. Match the words in column A with the meanings in column B by drawing a line as shown.
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Answer:

  1. (f)
  2. (e)
  3. (a)
  4. (b)
  5. (c)
  6. (d)
  7. (j)
  8. (h)

E. Read these shortened forms of words and write the flillform for the remaining words and complete the table given below.
Eg : won’t: will not
I’d: I had /1 would
I’ll: I will
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Speaking

F. You are visiting a primary school where on studied classes I to IV, after six years. You get a chance to go to your standard two classrooms and you are permitted to sit at the same place where you used to sit.

Question 1.
What would you remember?
Answer:
Teachers, friends, stories, playtime would be the things remembered.

Question 2.
Describe your feelings at that time.
Answer:
I used to enjoy coming to school when I was in second standard, I used to play and colour and draw and listen to stories.

Question 3.
Who do you miss very badly, your friends or teachers?
Answer:
I miss my friends.

Question 4.
Share your thoughts with the class.
Answer:
I also think of my teachers with gratitude and love. They shaped me and moulded me with virtues and good principles. I would very much like to talk to them and thank them. I also wish to meet my friends, whom I played with and relive those happy moments of innocent childhood, filled with happiness and petty fights.

Writing

G. On. Seeing these iictures, you would have gone down your memory lane. Write a paragraph in about 50 words describing your favourite sport when you were young.
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Answer:
When I was young, I used to run about swinging my catapult and aiming at monkeys, crows and fruits on trees. I also played cricket with my friends on the road. Whenever a vehicle passed by, we had to stop the game. When people passed that way, we would stop and then resume the game after they had left. It was a wonderful period full of happiness and no responsibilities at all.

Think and Write

H. Based on the story and your own ideas write your answers in about 80 to 100 words each:

Question 1.
Imagine yourself as the writer. Narrate the story of your visit to your ancestral house.
Answer:
I visited my ancestral home after 25 years. I used to live there before 25 years and enjoyed playing in the garden swing, climbing trees and discussing with my friends and relatives on various topics. My ancestral home belongs to my grandfather and he inherited it from my great grandfather. When I went there after twenty five years, I was almost fifty years old. Certain parts of the house, were changed but the Jack-fruit tree continued to be there, giving shade. This was considered as a blessing to the house. I had hidden same treasures in the hollow of the tree and found the Iron Cross when a small girl of 13 years climbed and searched for it in the tree. My visit brought many memories of the past. I couldn’t stay there because my grandfather sold it to someone else.

Question 2.
The man who came to the house gave the cross as a gift to the girl. Why did he do this? What do you think would have happened if he had taken back the cross with him?
Answer:
He gave the cross as a gift to the girl because he might have felt she found the treasure so she could have it. If he had carried it with himself he would have saved it as a treasure because it would remind him of his days in youth when he could, climb the Jackfruit tree in his ancestral home. Now the house does not belong to him nor was he able to climb the tree as he was no more a youth.

Creative Writing

I. Write a letter to your friend describing your ancestral house.
Answer:

25, Rajaji Street,
Kumbakonam.
12th May, 2019

Dear Naresh,

You would be surprised to know that I am now writing this letter from Kumbakonam, as I have come here to visit my grandmother. Oh, what a palatial house she’s got, here in the heart of the town. It has two storeys, and imagine, the steps are made of wood. There is a big granary at the comer of the house and she grazes three cows, all succulent one, in the backyard. The backyard is a big to walk about. The lovely garden in the backyard is lull of pageant flowers and true music of various sweet chirping birds. It is such a wonderful house. Nearly fifty people can live there. I enjoy being here. I welcome you here too.

Convey my regards to all at home.

Your loving friend,
Md. Yusuf.

Grammar

Degrees of Comparison

A. Work with a partner and fill in the table with information about your locality. You may add more information, if necessary. When you finish filling the table, write a short paragraph comparing the two places.
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My partner’s place is farther than my place to the railway station. But she is closer to the airport than me. I have shopping centres and temples more closer than my partner. The important heritage centres are fewer in my area than my partner’s area. There is a pond in my partner’s location and the traffic is not heavier than my area. There are four hotels and a park closer to my/esidence than my partner’s place.

B. Give your opinion and compare the items in each picture using -er, more, less, or an irregular form. Use the words. You may form your sentences in more than one way.

[healthy, wholesome, calorific]
1. (a) Fresh vegetables are healthier than pizza.
(b) They are wholesome than fast foods.
(c) Pizza is not calorific than fresh vegetables.

[eco-friendly, economical, safer]
2. (a) Using a bicycle is eco-friendly than using a motorbike
(b) Bicycle is economical than motorbike.
(c) It is also safer than the motorbike.

[educational, interesting, trendy]
3. (a) The Radio does not give more educational benefits than a mobile phone.
(b) Mobile phone is more interesting than a radio.
(c) It is also more trendy than a radio.

[safe, comfortable, quick]
(a) It is safer to travel in a train than a bus.
(b) Train is more comfortable than a bus.
(c) A train travels quicker than a bus.

[cozy, costly, sturdy]
5. (a) The sofa is costlier than a chair.
(b) It is cozier than a chair.
(c) The sofa looks sturdier than a chair.

C. Look at the bar-graph. Write five sentences using the appropriate degrees of comparison.
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Answer:

  1. Paragliding’s popularity in 2001 was more than in 2017.
  2. Rafting is more popular in 2017 than in 2001.
  3. Rock-climbing attracted more climbers in 2017 than in 2001.
  4. Bungee jumping is more popular in 2017 than in 2001.
  5. The sport surfing attracted less people in 2017 than in 2001.

D. Listen to the conversation between Leena and her mother and list down a few new words. Using a dictionary find out the meaning for those words.
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Warm up

Question a.
Have you ever tried swinging from a tree?
Answer:
Yes, as a child I had attached ropes to the branches and had been swinging frequently.

Question b.
Have you ever climbed up a tree to pluck fruits?
Answer:
Yes. I have competed with my friends in climbing up and plucking fruits.

Question c.
Think of other occasions when you have climbed up trees, either near your homes or outside. Share your reasons with the class.
Answer:
I had climbed up a tree

  • to look at a lovely bird and its nest;
  • to pluck tasty fruits and eat them;
  • to observe the young ones of trees etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms: Additional Questions

Choose the appropriate Synonym of the underlined words.

Question 1.
He was glad to see that the Jack fruit tree still stood at the side of the building casting its shade on the wall.
(a) throwing
(b) dancing
(c) lighting
(d) showering
Answer:
(a) throwing

Question 2.
At the spot where he stood, there had once been a turnstile.
(a) plant
(b) revolving gate
(c) shrub
(d) tree
Answer:
(b) revolving gate

Question 3.
He stood on the grass verge by the side of the road and looked over the garden wall at the old house.
(a) comer
(b) at the top
(c) at the edge
(d) middle
Answer:
(c) at the edge

Question 4.
when she was tired of pruning rose bushes and bougainvillea.
(a) augmenting
(b) growing
(c) trimming
(d) spreading
Answer:
(c) trimming

Question 5.
It was on the tip of his tongue to make a witty remark.
(a) funny
(b) intelligent
(c) awkward
(d) foolish
Answer:
(b) intelligent

Question 6.
He did not look very prosperous.
(a) poor
(b) flourishing
(c) well
(d) popular
Answer:
(b) flourishing

Question 7.
‘Middle-aged man on the flying trapeze’ he muttered to himself.
(a) utter in a low voice
(b) speak loudly
(c) shouted
(d) screamed
Answer:
(a) utter in a low voice

Question 8.
He slithered down into a flowerbed.
(a) stood
(b) slipped
(c) looked
(d) sat
Answer:
(b) slipped

Question 9.
He shattered the stem of a hollyhock.
(a) pasted
(b) broke
(c) joined
(d) attached
Answer:
(b) broke

Question 10.
They stood on either side of the wall appraising each other.
(a) talking
(b) shouting
(c) assessing
(d) commenting
Answer:
(c) assessing

Another type of exercise

Choose the appropriate Synonym of the underlined words.

1. He stood on the grass verge (i) by the side of the road and looked over the garden wall at the old house. It hadn’t changed much. The old (ii) house built with solid blocks (iii) of granite wasn’t altered (iv) at all. But there was a new outhouse, and there were fewer (v) trees.

i) (a) middle
(b)edge
(c) sphere
(d) outfield
Answer:
(b) edge

ii) (a) fresh
(b) current
(c) new
(d) ancient
Answer:
(d) ancient

iii) (a) balls
(b) openings
(c) edges
(d) bars
Answer:
(d) bars

iv) (a) retained
(b) worsened
(c) changed
(d) not updated
Answer:
(c) changed

v) (a) other
(b) less
(c) more
(d) outsize
Answer:
(b) less

2. As they walked across the grass he spotted (i) a stone bench under a mango tree. It was the bench on which his grandmother used to rest (ii) when she was tired (iii) of pruning (iv) rose bushes and bougainvillea. ‘Let’s just sit here,’ he said. ‘I don’t want to go inside.’ She sat beside (v) him on the bench

i) (a) cleaned
(b) unstained
(c) bleached
(d) noticed
Answer:
(d) noticed

ii) (a) hurry
(b) relax
(c) struggle
(d) move
Answer:
(b) relax

iii) (a) fresh
(b) energetic
(c) weary
(d) active
Answer:
(c) weary

iv) (a) trimming
(b) watering
(c) lengthening
(d) augmenting
Answer:
(a) trimming

v) (a) further
(b) farther
(c) near
(d) apart from
Answer:
(c) near

3. She didn’t understand that, but she walked with him to the gate and waited. Where the road turned (i), he looked back and waved to her. Then he quickened (ii) his steps and moved briskly (iii) towards the bus stop. There was sprightliness (iv) in his step, and something cried aloud (v) in his heart.

i) (a) straightened
(b) revolved
(c) departed
(d) flourished
Answer:
(b) revolved

ii) (a) hastened
(b) lagging
(c) slowed
(d) weakened
Answer:
(a) hastened

iii) (a) listlessly
(b) energetically
(c) sluggishly
(d) slowly
Answer:
(b) energetically

iv) (a) laziness
(b) inactivity
(c) indolence
(d) liveliness
Answer:
(d) liveliness

v) (a) inaudibly
(b) placidly
(c) in a loud noise
(d) vaguely
Answer:
(c) in a loud noise

(ii) Choose the correct Antonyms of the word underlined below.

Question 1.
The old house built with solid blocks of granite wasn’t altered at all.
(a) changed
(b) fixed
(c) turned
(d) transferred
Answer:
(b) fixed

Question 2.
He was glad to see that the Jackfruit still stood at the side of the building.
(a) happy
(b) merry
(c) sad
(d) joyful
Answer:
(c) sad

Question 3.
A blessing rests on the house, where the shadow of a tree falls.
(a) curse
(b) gratitude
(c) luck
(d) chance
Answer:
(a) curse

Question 4.
She was only twelve or thirteen with lively eyes and long black hair.
(a) dull
(b) active
(c) enthusiastic
(d) hopeful
Answer:
(a) dull

Question 5.
The man burst out laughing.
(a) wailing
(b) grinning
(c) mocking
(d) kidding
Answer:
(a) wailing

Question 6.
He got up on the wall all right, but had to rest there, breathing heavily.
(a) strongly
(b) lightly
(c) calmly
(d) amply
Answer:
(b) lightly

Question 7.
You found it after all’
(a) got
(b) regained
(c) lost
(d) captured
Answer:
(c) lost

Question 8.
‘Yes, I was so excited at the time.
(a) joyful
(b) happy
(c) merry
(d) calm
Answer:
(d) calm

Question 9.
I was a bit of crow, you know, collecting bright things and putting them away.
(a) scattering
(b) throwing
(c) gathering
(d) putting
Answer:
(a) scattering

Question 10.
Something cried aloud in his heart.
(a) big
(b) small
(c) large
(d) silent
Answer:
(d) silent

Question 11.
He did not look prosperous.
(a) success
(b) failure
(c) victorious
Answer:
(b) failure

Another type of exercise

Choose the appropriate Antonyms of the underlined words.

1. They were silent (i) for some time. The man closed his eyes and remembered other times – the music of a piano, the chiming of a grandfather clock, the constant (ii) twitter of budgerigars on the veranda, his grandfather cranking up the old (iii) car…. ‘I used to climb (iv) the jackfruit tree,’ he said, opening (v) his eyes.

i) (a) quiet
(b) mute
(c) clamorous
(d) dumb
Answer:
(c) clamorous

ii) (a) inconsistent
(b) continual
(c) uninterrupted
(d) regular
Answer:
(a)inconsistent

iii) (a) archaic
(b) modem
(c) antique
(d) vintage
Answer:
(b) modern

iv) (a) rise
(b) ascent
(c) descend
(d) mount
Answer:
(c) descend

v) (a) fling
(b) chinking
(c) clefting
(d) closing
Answer:
(d) closing

2. ‘No, no. Not after (i) climbing the garden wall. Let’s just sit here for a few (ii) minutes and talk. I mention the jackfruit tree because it was my favourite (iii) place. Do you see that thick (iv) branch stretching out over the roof? Half way along it there’s a small (v) hollow in which I used to keep some of my treasures.’

i) (a) later
(b) back
(c) next
(d) before
Answer:
(d) before

ii) (a) petty
(b) many
(c) scanty
(d) slight
Answer:
(b) many

iji) (a) choice
(b) ideal
(c) disliked
(d) main
Ans:
(c) disliked

iv) (a) obtuse
(b) thin
(c) dull
(d) dense
Answer:
(b) thin

v) (a) little
(b) tiny
(c) minor
(d) big
Answer:
(d) big

3. “I left it in the jackfruit tree.” “You left it in the tree?”. “Yes, I was so excited (i) at the time, packing and saying goodbye to people and thinking about the ship I was going to sail on that I simply (ii) forgot all about it”. She quietly (iii) said, “It may still (iv) be there. In the hallow (v) part of the branch”.

i) (a) thrilled
(b) stimulated
(c) aroused
(d) bored
Answer:
(d) bored

ii) (a) merely
(b) hardly
(c)just
(d) plainly
Answer:
(b) hardly

iii) (a) gently
(b) softly
(c) loudly
(d) calmly
Answer:
(c) loudly

iv) (a) even now
(b) so far
(c) yet
(d) no longer
Answer:
(d) no longer

v) (a) sublimate
(b) consecrate
(c) defile
(d) solemnize
Answer:
(c) defile

I Cant Climb Trees Anymore By Ruskin Bond

May 1934. He is an award winning Indian He is much renowned for his role in creating The Indian Council for Child Education has of childrens literature in India. He received 1 for Xhir trees still grow in Dehra”. Padma Bhushan in 2014.

I Cant Climb Trees Anymore Summary

A visitor watched the old house that had not changed. It was built with granite walls. It had a new outhouse with fewer trees. The Jackfruit tree was still there giving shade. His grandmother felt the shade was a blessing from, the trees. As a boy he used to swing on a turnstile going round and round. Now it was gone. The tall hollyhocks grew on the other side of the wall. A girl stood between the red hollyhocks staring at the man. She was twelve or thirteen years old, slim, with lovely eyes and long black hair.

The girl asked the man whether he wanted to buy the house. The girl said it was her father’s house and that he was a Colonel. She says that her mother said that he should have become a brigadier. They stood on either side of the wall appraising each other. The man said that he looked at the house because he lived there once and they had sold the house after his grandmother’s death. She asked whether he would like to buy the house then. Later she realised he didn’t have the money as he didn’t look prosperous. He said he only wanted to see it and the girl said that they had lived there for three years. She called him in to have a better view of the house and that her parents wouldn’t mind. She finds that he is middle aged. He climbed the wall, got up on the wall and rested breathing heavily.

She said she would help him on the flying trapeze. She gave him her hand. He slipped down into a flower bed, breaking the stem of a hollyhock. Across the grass he spotted a stone bench under a mango tree. It was the bench where his grandmother sat trimming rose bushes and bougainvillea. He wanted to sit outside. She sat with him on the bench. They were silent and the man closed his eyes and remembered the music of a piano, the chiming of a grandfather clock, the noise of the birds on the veranda and his grandfather repairing the old car.

He remembered climbing the jackfruit tree. She said her parents wouldn’t mind him climbing the tree. He only wanted to sit and talk for a few minutes. His favourite place was the Jackfruit tree. He said he used to keep his treasures in the hollow of the tree. Treasures were only marbles he had won, a book he wasn’t supposed to read, old coins, grandfather’s Iron Cross awarded for bravery during the first world war in France. He got it from a German soldier. She asked whether he had the Iron Cross. He didn’t. He had left it in the Jackfruit tree. Being very excited at that time and bidding goodbye before sailing in the ship he forgot all about it.

Thinking it might still be there in the hollow of the tree, he said unless someone else found it, since twenty five years had passed. He said he can’t climb trees anymore to have a look and she said she would. She found it and ran towards him with a rusty old medal in her hand. He made sure that it was the same Iron Cross. She asked him whether he had come to find it. He said he wasn’t sure and asked her to have it as she found it and that it would have even been there for another 25 years.

He placed the medal in her hands and said that he had come for his youth and not for the Iron Cross. As he walked away to the bus stop he remembered his youth and the air filled with the smell of the sweet mango and the summer breeze made his blood rush in his veins forgetting the feel that he was so old that he couldn’t climb trees anymore.

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